[MEncoder-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

[Phil Ehrens]

Ivo wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 16:58, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:29:00AM -0500, Jeff Clagg wrote:
> > > What's bad about this is that the relative lack of success of ATSC
> > > adoption is keeping analog signals on the air, which uses a significant
> > > amount of bandwidth in order to serve a tiny and dwindling userbase.
> >
> > This userbase is neither tiny now dwindling. Most people have no idea
> > what digital TV is and certainly no need for it.
> 
> Last november, the Dutch government shut down all analog TV broadcast over 
> here. IIRC 30.000 households, mostly in rural areas, where forced to buy 
> digital receivers, get cable or get a dish if there was no coverage. The US 
> population is over 20 times larger and there's a lot more rural area I 
> suppose, so I wouldn't be surprised if 300-400k households are solely 
> dependent on analog broadcasts.

I would like to see all the households in the US deprived of
TV. The wasteland just gets vaster and vaster. All you
furriner's realise that Homer Simpson is NOT a parody, but
a pastiche, right? People here are really like that. I'd
rather see everyone in the street shooting it out over the
last parking space than sitting in the La-Z-Boy eating the
final bit of dust out of the lower-left corner of the Cheetoh's
bag.